January, 2019

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You Have the Power, Don’t Give it Away

Learning Rebels

What is power? Looking at the standard definition we see this: “ the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behavior of others or the course of events “ However, the word, “power” often triggers negative emotions of a person or process leveraging against us. Negative power words surround us. This said I find “power” an interesting concept when it comes to working within organizations.

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What is Adult Learning Theory and Why Is It Important?

ej4 eLearning

We often take for granted that people know how to learn. After all, we all had to learn while in school, right? But that can be a dangerous attitude to take when it comes to corporate training initiatives. School curricula are built on theories about how children and teenagers learn (and how much time they can dedicate to learning). Have you ever considered whether adults learn in the same way?

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4 Ways to Reduce Cognitive Load in eLearning

Tim Slade

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eLearning Trends 2019: From The Trenches

eLearning Industry

'From the Trenches' talks about what’s happening in the minds and pockets of L&D managers across the world, the shifting priorities and changing paradigms in corporate training. From a utilitarian shift in Instructional Design to LMS's that teach, read what’s happening in the L&D world. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Experience the Benefit of Fully Trainable AI-Powered Learning Companions

As a training manager looking to amplify your team's results, Knowledge Avatars are the next level. Beyond mere chatbots, Knowledge Avatars are companions, interactive tutors ready to educate the urgent information your team needs to excel in their roles. Knowledge Avatars are versatile and adaptable personal coaches! They can be customized with your company's knowledge via a simple upload of your data.

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Learning objectives: Our frenemy

Making Change

“Never design anything without first writing the learning objectives.” We all know this. It’s a useful rule, but only when the objectives are useful. And there’s the problem — conventional learning objectives can work against us. They’re our friends, but not always. What do I mean by “conventional learning objectives?

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Improve Customer Service Training with a Learning Management Software

TOPYX LMS

Companies are increasing their focus on the customer experience, and for good reason: happy customers are loyal customers. Thirty-five Customer Experience Statistics to Know for 2019¹ stated, “Customers no longer base their loyalty on price or product. Instead, they stay loyal with companies due to the experience they receive. If you cannot keep up with their increasing demands, your customers will leave you.”.

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How Can Workplace Wellness Be Improved?

ej4 eLearning

Start With Healthy Balance. There’s a lot of research showing that healthier employees are a benefit to organizations. They are more productive, less likely to miss work or be involved in accidents, less likely to file workers’ comp claims, and more likely to stay with the company. Beyond productivity, we look at our employees as human beings, not just numbers or drones.

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5 Tips for Better Online Course Management

LearnDash

How to keep your online course management from overwhelming your life. One of the most appealing ideas about online courses for instructors is the assumption that, once the course content is created, instructors can leave their courses to run on autopilot and reap the benefits of passive income. However, as much as we might like this to be the case, there’s a laundry list of administrative duties, marketing tasks, and instructor responsibilities that can overwhelm educators if they aren

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5 Best Practices Of Using Interactive Game-Based Templates In eLearning

eLearning Industry

Game-based learning is an effective mechanism to build interactive and engaging learning experiences. This article talks about some best practices you should follow when using game-based templates in your eLearning modules. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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The Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Customer Learning

Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your organization’s bottom line. Our research has shown a clear correlation between high program maturity (and ROI!) and choosing the right monetization strategy. This eBook contains clear, actionable ways to approach packaging and pricing models that will help your association grow revenue, improve profitability, and drive expansion into new markets.

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Easily Publish eLearning to Birch Learning Platform

B Online Learning

In the world of learning, a Learning Management System (LMS) or Learning Platform (LP) is used to distribute eLearning content and track users’ […]. The post Easily Publish eLearning to Birch Learning Platform appeared first on B Online Learning.

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What NOT To Do In 2019

Upside Learning

So, we are officially in 2019! A lot of us may have made New Year resolutions (some long lasting, some too short lived). But in this article, instead of giving goals and ambitions, let me try something new. Let’s make a list of things that are a no-no for 2019. Here’s a list of my […].

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3 Trends That Will Impact the 2019 Online Learning Platform Market

TOPYX LMS

The growth of the 2019 eLearning market will be incredible. It’s estimated that the market will grow at a 5 percent compound annual growth rate between now and 2024, at which point it will likely exceed $200 billion, according to Training Magazine. 1 Forbes predicted that the market will climb to $325 billion by 2025. 2 This unparalleled growth is due to the convenient learning solutions eLearning offers corporations.

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Y A (Yet Another) Misleading Mobile Marketing Post

Clark Quinn

Is this YAMMMP? I suppose I can’t address every one, but I think picking a few here and there are perhaps instructive. And, maybe, a bit fun. So there was a post on 5 mobile learning strategies. I’m a wee bit opinionated on mobile learning, so I thought I’d have a look. And, of course, it seems to be a random selection. I guess there’s a requirement to regularly put out stuff, but it seems they get someone to make stuff up almost randomly, for the sake of marketing.

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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.

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How Long Should Videos Be for E-Learning?

LearnDash

Videos are an essential aspect of online education. But how long is too long? And how short is too short? If your video strategy for creating course videos was to tape a lecture and throw it online, it’s unlikely many of your learners are staying till the end. If they are, they’re probably pausing it mid-stream and coming back to it later. Why? Because a forty-five-minute lecture is more than what the average learner can process in one sitting.

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8 Ways To Enhance The Learning Process In Online Education

eLearning Industry

Learning efficiency is typically determined by the money, time and resources that are crucial for obtaining desired results. This means the learning process becomes better if fewer expenses and less time is involved. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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The Biggest Education Technology Trends for 2019

Lambda Solutions

Every year, it seems like more and more media outlets are ready to announce the end of the traditional classroom — that desks and chalkboards will soon be discarded to make way for flipped classes, digital workspaces and social learning. The truth is, the best educational technology doesn’t replace the traditional classroom, but enhances it. Through the latest educational innovations, teachers and students now have better access to quality resources and effective learning methods than ever befor

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Flash To HTML5, One Last Time!

Upside Learning

We’ve been there and done that. I am referring to migrating some/all of the Flash eLearning to HTML5 a few years ago. So you may ask: why again? Here’s why. When Apple decided to not support Flash on its mobile devices (including tablets), it was the beginning of the end of Flash. Most of us […].

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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Kajabi Review: The Best All-In-One Online Course Platform

Sell Courses Online

The post Kajabi Review: The Best All-In-One Online Course Platform appeared first on Sell Courses Online. Kajabi is one of the most popular online course platforms in the market today and you probably would have heard of it. It is pretty different from a typical online course platform. The post Kajabi Review: The Best All-In-One Online Course Platform appeared first on Sell Courses Online.

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What to evaluate?

Clark Quinn

In a couple of articles, the notion that we should be measuring our impact on the business is called out. And being one who says just that , I feel obligated to respond. So let’s get clear on what I’m saying and why. It’s about what to evaluate, why, and possibly when. So, in the original article , by my colleague Will Thalheimer, he calls the claim that we should focus on business impact ‘dangerous’!

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Thinking Outside the Course: Free Tools for Making E-learning Better

Mike Taylor

It is *CRAZY* cold around here today but that won´t stop us from exploring a mountain of great free tools that can make your elearning better. Later today, I´ll be part of the eLearning Guild Spotlight event, ¨ Get the Best Free Tools to Make Great eLearning ¨. My session, ¨ Tools for Thinking Outside the Course ¨ (1pm Pacific/4pm Eastern) will highlight some great options for making your eLearning better.

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How To Outsource eLearning Curriculum, Part 2

eLearning Industry

Embarking on an eLearning curriculum design project can feel like there are a million different moving parts. A well-designed eLearning curriculum will develop and nurture the critical skills needed to achieve a specific business outcome. Unfortunately, whether or not a curriculum design is successful is often left to chance. With so much on the line, who wants to take that gamble?

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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World Economic Forum: the top 10 skills needed for the future of work

Coorpacademy

The second issue of the World Economic Forum’s “Future of Jobs” report predicts the loss of 75 million jobs by 2025. But it also predicts the creation of 133 million jobs thanks to the digital revolution. A positive balance of 58 million jobs; pretty optimistic, right? Yes, at the condition of learning and training on tomorrow’s skills in the meantime.

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9 Elearning Authoring Tools: Comparison and Review

Elucidat

New technologies are changing the way learning is delivered. In this article, Steve Penfold reviews nine leading elearning authoring tools. He compares each one based on ease of use, quality of content produced, speed of authoring and scalability. Which is the best authoring tool for you? I think you already know the answer to that…it depends!

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Starting a Customer Education Program: What You Should Know

Talented Learning

EDITOR’S NOTE: Occasionally, we invite learning community experts to share their advice with our readers. Today we feature a post by Adam Avramescu , Head of Customer Education & Training at Checkr and Co-Founder of the CELab blog/podcast. He also authored the new book, Customer Education: Why Smart Companies Profit by Making Customers Smarter.

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7 Microlearning Benefits for Organizations [Infographic]

CommLab India

How is Microlearning beneficial for organizations? Here’s an infographic that shows 7 benefits that make it valuable in the business context.

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HIA Technologies Turns a New Chapter in Interactive Learning

HIA Technologies announces the launch of Qvio™️ interactive video platform for learner-driven, AI-enabled, education. Viewers get instant answers to their questions directly from videos, interrupting when needed, and getting an author-validated answer!

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Is Online Education Better than Traditional Education?

Kitaboo

Educational institutes have been practicing the traditional teaching method since ages. Most of us are familiar with the traditional model where one teacher is teaching fifty students at a time. No-one knows if those fifty students are able to understand what is being explained or if they are even paying attention to the lecture. This style of teaching is not considered very effective today.

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Custom eLearning Development: 4 Tips To Deliver Compelling And Engaging Content

eLearning Industry

“Compelling and engaging”… if I had a cent for every time I’ve heard these two words in the Learning and Development industry, I’d be a wealthy man…. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Want To Make More Money? Join The Hybrid-Jobs Revolution.

Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

We all know how automation, AI, and digital tools have changed our jobs. We spend more than a quarter of our time on e-mail , we have to juggle dozens of passwords, and we spend more than four hours a day on our phones. But how has all this technology impacted our jobs and. Read more» The post Want To Make More Money? Join The Hybrid-Jobs Revolution. appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.

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